• Family : URTICACEAE
  (Nettle Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BICHCHHOO FAMILY (बिच्छू फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : URTICACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pellionia heyneana Wedd.
• Vernacular name : Nilampatti (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Common along streams or on wet rocks in evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : May-September
• Collection Nos : KFP 8057, KFP 8393, CJS 13643
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Pellionia heyneana. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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